SUMMARY:

• Solutions Architect in Confidential, a leading Health Care company. Engaged for creating a migration plan for migrating Mainframe based health care claims adjudication application to current industry standard scalable IBM Sterling File Gateway/B2Bi and IBM ITXA/ITX. Teh solution required replacing all teh non - standard EDI data formats with HIPPA 5010 (or any newer version) EDI data formats for communication with teh clients and developing a canonical data format for messaging between different subsystems and creating teh Sterling B2Bi architect with WebSphere MQ to interface with back end Java based CAE (Claims Adjudication Engine).
• SME in Managed File Transfer Services(MFT) including Sterling File Gateway, Sterling B2B Integrator, Sterling Control Center(ICC), Secure Proxy, Perimeter Servers and CONNECT:DIRECT(CD). Involved in planning, architecture design, creating enterprise standards for file transmission), configuration, performance tuning, code development(BP Development Using BPML, Java apps, Unix scripting), complex file transmission setups, client contact, trouble shooting and documentation and. Because of teh huge success of Managed File Transfer implementation, it was approved as teh Enterprise Application in Confidential for sending/receiving all external files.
• WebSphere Portal Architect/SME and WebSphere SME, with 20+ years of experience in Web Content Management and more TEMPthan 20 years of experience in Unix scripting and administration of middleware Linux, AIX and Solaris servers.
• Extensive experience in working with large global Companies and International clients around teh globe: 14 years with T. Rowe Price (USA), 5+ years with American Express (USA), 1 year with Fidelity (Canada), 4+ years in large Telecom Companies like General Plessey Telecommunication (GPT in UK, Liverpool and Manchester) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Japan) and 9+ years of experience in working with some of teh world’s largest offshore-centric(Indian offshore consultants) Software Consulting firms.
• Extensive experience in both hardware and software. Started software development career with COBOL, C, C++ and moved to application development with Vignette Content Management. Worked as a developer and tan grew up to be teh SME and Architect on Vignette, WebSphere, WebSphere Portal and WCM and currently a solutions architect on IBM Sterling B2B integrator(B2Bi) and EDI.
• Strong noledge of various communication protocols like FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SFTP, AS2, TCP, SSL, TLS, PGP and GPG encryption, X 509 certificates, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and encryption algorithms like RSA, DSA, ECDSA and ED25519 as well as Digital Signatures.
• Successful execution of multiple on-site and off-shore projects as teh Technical Architect and Team Leader. Managed teams with up to 16 off-shore/on-site team members using Sterling B2B Integrator, WebSphere, WebSphere Portal and Vignette migration experience
• Key player in creating a Content Management Practice in Cognizant Technology Solutions to address teh organizational needs for strategies and architectural directions, training needs, software procurement and alliances. Engaged in providing architectural directions and leading teh RFP (Request for Proposal) and estimation for more TEMPthan 30 clients.
• Recognized by management, clients and colleagues for achieving great success in my role. Received commendations and awards for outstanding performance, successful project implementation, on-time delivery, critical issue resolution and client satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Sterling File Gateway: Enterprise wise Managed File Transmission (MFT) solutions using Sterling File Gateway 2.2.6, Sterling B2B Integrator 5.2.6, Control Center, Secure Proxy Perimeter Server, CONNECT DIRECT, Autosys integration, Mainframe file transfer, BPMK, XML, XPATH.

Portal and Content Management: IBM WCM, WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management 6.1.5/6.1/6.0/5.1, WebSphere 7.0.x/6.1.x/6.0.x/5.x/4.x, Workplace Forms 2.6, Quick Place 7, WebSphere Process Server 6.0.1.3, Vignette Application Portal 4.5.1/4.1, Vignette V6.0.0/V5.6/SS 5.0.7, TCL 8.4, Exposure to Vignette V7.3.0.3 and VAP 7.1.

Web Technology: AJAX, HTML, DHTML, ASP, VB Script, JavaScript, XML, XSL/XSLT.

Java Technology: Java, JSP, Servlets, Portlets.

Scripting: Unix scripting, Jacl and Jython(WAS), TCL(Vignette), BPML(Sterling File Gateway).

Programming Languages: Java, VC++ 5.0, C++, C, Visual Basic (MS VB 5.0 and VBA), 80x86.

Database: UDB 8.1.16, IBM Content Manager 8.3, Cloudscape 10, Sybase adaptive Server 11.9.2(with UTF-8), SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 8.1.6, MS Access 97, SQL.

IDE: RAD 7, RAD 6, WSAD 5.1.1, Net Beans 5.5, Oracle JDeveloper 10g.

Reporting Applications: Site Analyzer, Topaz, Web Trend, Visual Science.

Version Control/Configuration: Visual Source Safe, Ant 1.6, subversion, PVCS.

Web/Application Servers: IIS 4.0/5.0, IHS 1.3.28, Sun One, Tomcat 4.x, Web Sphere 4.x/5.x.

Security & LDAP: SiteMinder, Active Directory, IBM Directory Server 4.1, TAM(Tivoli Access Manager).

Applications: WRI (Web Reporting Infrastructure), Admin Web (installed on BEA Web Logic on Windows and WebSphere 6.1 on AIX), GTS (Global Translation System, WebSphere 6.1 on Windows), WebSphere 6, 6.1, 7.0 infrastructure, Leads 7.1.1, TLM Recon 2.6, Mobius migration to WebSphere 6.1.

Operating Systems: RedHat Linux5u4, AIX 5.2, Solaris 5.8, Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0, Solaris 2.4J, UnixWare 1.1J, UNIX, AEGIS, DOS, NOS V (Cyber).

Performance Monitoring Tools: New Relics, CA Wily, Splunk, TOPAZ (Load Runner and monitoring tool), Silk Test (Load runner and monitoring tool), Fiddler Network Monitoring, Wireshark Network Protocol Analyzer, SQA Team Test (Defect Logging).

ITSM Tools: ServiceNow

Other Miscellaneous Software: Adobe Photoshop 6.0 and Image Ready, Paint Shop Pro 9.x, LView Pro, MVP Image Processing S/W, LEVEL 5 OOPS, Select Enterprise Manager (OMT Tool), Workday

Methodologies/Processes: Scrum, Method /1, ISO 9001, CMMI (Process Modelling), Six Sigma

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, VA

IBM Sterling B2B Integrator Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• As a B2Bi specialist, worked with teh Mainframe Input and Output Gateway support personnel to understand teh current IO sub-system and create teh existing IO architecture diagrams. Created detailed process flow diagrams for teh file transmission through IIB, MQ and Axway and how teh current system processes teh files in batch mode and real time mode.
• Created teh architecture diagrams and detailed documentation to present to teh management and architecture team. Proposed a plan for migrating/developing teh IO sub system using current industry standard tools and technology e.g. Sterling B2Bi, IBM MQs and migrating teh existing backups to teh new system.
• Worked with teh EDI team to move teh existing custom XML to HIPPA EDI using X 12/834/835/837/270/271 etc. and functional acnoledgement 997 and other standard formats. Scrum and Kanban was used as teh project development methodology.
• When teh Claims Adjudication system was developed FEPOC using Mainframe, COBOL, ESB and MQs, it was a fully custom development and many custom EDI data formats were used to communicate between teh claims engine and teh peripheral subsystem. In 1995, an experimental HIPAA gateway was developed. But teh original data format which were used in teh claims adjudication system was huge Superset of 837, so in teh custom solution, teh transaction sets e.g. 837 was wrapped in a custom XML format which handled teh additional data fields.
• In teh current solution, a canonical standard was proposed to use teh HIPPA standard transaction sets i.e. map teh equivalent field to 837 and use teh K3 fields of 837 to handle teh additional data fields. In teh original solution, each transmission included teh payer information, creating a transmission overhead.
• My proposal included archival of teh provider data and teh payer information in teh local database without transmitting to teh CareFirst units and also to compress teh data using .zip compression in sterling file gateway to create an efficient input/output transmission process.

ENVIRONMENT: Sterling File Gateway 2.2.6, Sterling B2B Integrator 5.2.6, AS2, EDI, BPML, IBM DataPower, IBM Integration Bus, IBM MQ

Confidential, MARYLAND, USA

SME/Administrator and WebSphere/Portal SME

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Planning, defining teh standards, installing, configuring and customizing teh Sterling File Gateway(SFG), Sterling B2B Integrator (B2Bi SI), Sterling Control Center(SCC), Perimeter Servers(PS), Sterling Secure Proxy(SSP) and IBM Sterling Connect:Direct® Product(SCD).
• Also responsible for creation of Custom Protocols, various custom BPs(Business Processes) using GPM(Graphical Process Modeler) and BPML(Business Process Modelling Language), developing maps using Map Editor and integrating AutoSys Scheduler with Sterling B2B (for scheduling teh transfer of files to teh client and receiving files from teh client.
• Developed BPs to send errors and alerts emails to different SFG groups. Responsible to managing teh IBM Sterling Control Center for transmission monitoring and reporting, performance tuning, critical issue resolution/production support and custom reporting.
• Responsible for completing teh proof of concept of teh Managed File Transfer(MFT) solution using IBM Sterling File Gateway (SFG) and Sterling B2B integrator. Was responsible for installation, configuration, performance tuning, upgrade, creating installation guidelines and horizontal scaling of servers for installing teh product in Dev, Test and Production environments. Being teh primary client contact for all B2B connection setup, responsible for client technical support and user training. With Sterling File Gateway/B2Bi, it was possible to create a centralized control, organizational file transfer standards and security.
• Created Java applications for uploading and downloading files from/to teh backend servers to Sterling File Gateway, so dat teh users can use teh Java application without creating any custom scripts or manual file transmission between Sterling B2B and teh backend servers. Acquired extensive experience with setting-up file transfers between Sterling B2B and external/ clients/Internal Clients/Mainframe/VPN connections, scheduled file upload and download, maintenance, production support, documentation and most importantly bringing users up to speed to work with SFG and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Teh biggest achievement was to create a front-end application to manage all teh transmissions. Proposed, planned and developed teh front-end application using SQL, jQuery, Unix script, java, workflow using IBM BPM and Sterling BPs written in BPML. dis lightweight front-end app stored all teh transmission related data in a local custom database outside teh scope of Sterling database. dis workflow-based app successfully automated a number of significant and complex repetitive tasks like user creation, user security and permission assignment, automatic email transmission and management approval. Users could access all functionality from dis from end without going inside SFG. dis was used to track transmissions and search all teh transmission related data, so dat teh users do not has to go through various Sterling configurations to find details about a transmission. dis application empowered teh employees to setup their transmission using a workflow, scheduled user creation in LDAP and Active Directory, identifying transmission details, and custom reporting. As a result of dis, teh channel creation time reduced form 4-6 weeks to 1-2 weeks.
• Created a web site to support dis front-end tool, so dat teh employees can get self-help to use dis front end, create customized Autosys scripts to schedule for SFG and set up file transmissions in Test environment with minimal help from Administrators.
• Created a Sterling B2B specific deployment process, so dat teh file transmissions were created and tested in Test/Qual environment and tan create an export package so dat teh production support team can deploy it to production. Automated teh Service Request creation for deployment as per company standards.
• SME for GPM, BPML, XML, XPATH. Created 90+ customized complex business processes, 8 different custom protocols and 50+ maps using Map Editor to be used with teh custom business processes and code-lists. Responsible for Sterling Operations Management and Permission Management. Gained extensive experience with EDI ANSI X12 mapping.
• Created various Business Processes/Workflows using BPML for custom business Processes, routine maintenance activities like deleting files from mailboxes at scheduled intervals, scheduling jobs etc. Autosys integration was done with SFG by using command line BPs, so dat teh users could schedule their file transmission using Autosys scheduler, which reduced teh server load on IBM Sterling Integrator significantly.
• Extensive experience with various protocols like FTP, FTPS, SFTP (Key based, and Password based Autantication), HTTP, AS2 and CONNECT:DIRECT, certificates, ciphers, PGP/GPG encryption and decryption, zipping and unzipping files, routing channels, template creation, code lists and export/import. Worked on planning and developing various custom protocols to send files to multiple directories using a file name filter, sending files to different servers using filename filter and broadcasting files. Worked with number of COTS applications for FTP, FTPS and SFTP.
• Created various Unix scripts for various Sterling B2Bi/Connect:Direct activities to automate tasks like user creation, integration with Autosys server for scheduled file get and put (with Sterling Command Line Adapter2), automatic installation and configuration of SFG and CONNECT:DIRECT as well as scripts to FTP/SFTP/FTPS/AS2 files to/from Sterling B2Bi and Java code to integrate with external applications on Windows and Unix platform.
• Teh Sterling B2Bi implementation in Confidential was a great success with 99.9% availability, and it was approved as teh only Enterprise Solution to transmit files to external clients. All home-grown file transmissions were required to be migrated to Sterling B2Bi. In 4 years, more TEMPthan 3000 transmissions were created to connect with various corporate clients, many of teh transmissions requiring complex integration with backend services and Mainframe system. dis setup enabled transmission/reception of more TEMPthan 10000 files daily.
• Successfully set up more TEMPthan 3000 file transmissions. Because of teh custom front end, dis saved teh organization more TEMPthan 7500 man-weeks.
• Created scripts to automate teh installation of IBM Connect:Direct File Agents on Linux/AIX/Solaris Servers, created custom protocol in SFG for WebSphere MQ connections so dat files can be sent to different servers using MQ.
• Developed exceptional relationships with internal customers, Sterling users and external business partners.
• Created weekly status reports for management team regarding file transmission usage and File transfer license usage. Created custom SQLs to automate various status reports.
• Migrated Sterling File Gateway and Sterling B2Bi from V5.2 to V5.4 and tan V5.6. Created teh presentations for teh Management team to justify migration requirements and did teh migration planning and project scheduling.
• During dis period, along with Managed File Transfer project, was still responsible for Web Content Management System which included teh Employee Portal and Corporate Portal sites, which were architected and created as a part of my previous project and continued teh role of WebSphere Portal as SME/System Administrator. Evaluated and installed all teh minor upgrades to make sure dat all teh WebSphere and Portal fix packs/patches are applied properly. As teh SME responsible for activities like routine maintenance tasks including fixing broken page links, weekly backups, weekly reporting, syndications, reviewing and cleaning up logs, certificates update, assisting users with complex tasks and most importantly troubleshooting failures and leading all teh Critical Situation calls (CritSit calls).

ENVIRONMENT: Sterling File Gateway 2.2.6, Sterling B2B Integrator 5.2.6, IBM Directory Server 6.1.0.29 (LDAP), CONNECT:DIRECT, EDI, BPML, GPM, MAP EDITOR, Microsoft Active Directory 5.2, MS SQL Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1, IBM DB2, AIX, SVN, AutoSys and GitHub.

Confidential, MD, USA

Senior Middleware (UNIX/AIX/SOLARIS/LINUX) Systems Administrator

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• As a senior member of teh Middleware Application Server team with 14 team members, responsible for teh Administration of AIX, Solaris and Linux servers and applications.
• Worked as teh IBM product SME.
• Responsible for product installation and configuration, deployment of Application and custom Code, development of scripts as well as providing support for various legacy systems including legacy WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management Systems, WebSphere Application Server (V6.x and V7.x), WebSphere Portal and WCM V5.x and 6.x and other Application Server environments like JBOSS, Tomcat, WebLogic and Windows, AutoSys and Production Ticket Support.
• Having worked extensively with WebSphere(starting from V4.x) and WebSphere Portal(from teh inception of WebSphere Portal by IBM), became teh Web Content Management SME and teh go-to person for teh installation, upgrade and support of different versions of WebSphere, WebSphere Portal and Web Content Management installations(Version 5.1.5, 6.1.0, 6.0.1.3 and tan to 6.0.1.4). One of teh major assignments was to create proof of concept of WAS 7.0 installation with a Live and Staging environment, which can be switched on demand using Unix scripts, so dat their will be no down time for deployment. Teh new WAS7 infrastructure was developed with provision for automatic cluster creation and application deployment. dis has been a huge success for T.Rowe with WAS7 implementation and migration of all old WAS applications to WAS7.
• During dis period, successfully implemented multiple high-profile Tier-1 projects. All teh projects were successfully deployed in production and handed over to different business units. Some of my major accomplishments were cloning of portal servers, completing teh proof of concept for Portal V7.0.1, teh pilot Project for cross platform upgrade from AIX to Linux and teh Portal version from 6.0.x to 6.1.2 and migrating teh WCM content and teh Portal artifacts to teh newer version of teh Portal. Use of cloning and teh cross-platform migrate on to Linux provided a huge cost saving to Confidential and teh ability to create new instances of Portal quickly.
• Teh other Tier-1 project completed successfully was “Leads 7.1.1 application upgrade” project. Teh existing application in T.Rowe was using an obsolete version of Leads 3.11 on WebSphere 4.0, in a clustered environment. Teh upgraded process required to upgrade to each version, like Leads 4, 5, 6, 7 and tan apply teh 7.1.1 patch, making it an extremely challenging deployment. Since Leads was a Tier-1 application, it was also required to has teh old version running during teh upgrade. dis product being a third-party application, many of teh installation/upgrade steps and scripts were customized to meet Confidential ’s infrastructure and deployment standards.
• Another major global initiative was teh implementation and administration of “Global Translation System”. dis is a third-party Windows/WebSphere 6.1 based application designed to translate Confidential documents and brochures to various international languages. Teh system was hosted at a single location and associates in different offices around teh globe will were able to access it using single sign-on.
• As a part of teh expansion of Application Server Support activities, implemented one teh very first non-Unix/non-WebSphere based application - Admin Web. dis was implemented using clustered BEA WebLogic 9.2 environment on Windows. dis project is one of teh very stable implementations and teh next step was to upgrade it to teh latest version of teh product using Unix/WebSphere 6.1.
• Apart from dat, handled multiple smaller projects like Mobius, TLM Recon, Visual Sciences, Wily monitoring tool setup for WAS/BEA apps and Migrating Web Reporting Infrastructure application from Perl to Java (dis app collects and processes all teh web server logs and feeds to Netgenesis platform).

ENVIRONMENT: AIX 5.3, Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5u4, WebSphere App Server 7.0/6.1/6.0, WebSphere Portal Server and Web Content Management 6.1.0.2/6.0.1. X, BEA WebLogic 9.2, Rational Application Developer 7.0, IBM Directory Server 6.1.0.29(LDAP), Microsoft Active Directory 5.2, IBM Tivioli.

Confidential, MD, USA

Web Content Management, WebSphere Portal and WebSphere SME/ Architect

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• IBM Web Sphere Portal was used to host two major and critical applications - Employee Portal (with around 80, 000 pages) and IWS (institutional Web Site - for managing teh retirement accounts of various Companies/Institutions). Teh projects started from scratch and teh responsibility included managing teh complete life cycle, which involved project planning, architecting teh environments, installing teh portal platform and migrating teh WCM content and portal artifacts to teh newer version of Portal. dis migration also involved redesigning many site layouts, themes and skins and Portal content to take advantage of teh enhanced features available in teh newer version of Portal/WCM. Teh migration/upgrade also required upgrading of some of teh Portal applications to work in teh new Portal/WebSphere environment.
• As a part of teh Strategy and Architecture Team, responsible for architecting, installation and implementation of Confidential Employee Portal (TRP Exchange) using WAS 5.1, WebSphere Portal 5.0.2.2 and IBM Web Content Management System. 2.0. Teh Employee Portal was launched during beginning of 2005 and was subsequently upgraded to WPS/WCM 5.1.0.1, WPS/WCM 5.1.0.2 and tan to WPS/WCM 5.1.0.3. During year end of 2007, teh Portal platform was migrated to WPS/WCM 6.0.1.1 and WAS 6.2.17. Teh Portal platform was also re-architected to support clustered WCM, VERITAS clustering on DB2 for high availability, portal integration with LDAP (IBM Directory server) and single sign-on using TAM, virtual portals, and a combination of horizontal and vertical clustering to provide a high available environment.
• Other activities involved investigation of new technologies, planning teh next phases of upgrade, proof of concept of various portal applications, installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting and business support of WAS, WPS, WCM and Site Analyzer and teh ownership of portal collaboration apps like Quickplace. Developed various portlets like iFrame Portlet, Quick HTML Display Portlet and Online Disclosure Consent Portlet (which uses SSO for displaying employee personal and HR details) and was involved in teh customization of Themes and Skins.
• Subsequent activities involved migrating WCM database to CM 8.3 and tan to UDB/DB2, database capacity planning, setting up a clustered delivery environment with remote rendering portlets for WCM, doing teh proof of concept for WCM Personalization and setting up teh Portal reporting infrastructure using Tivoli Web Site Analyzer/Web tracker.
• Portal platform was new in T.Rowe. Learned Portal from scratch and developed expertise to be teh SME in Portal and WCM in teh organization. Worked on finalizing teh enterprise wide content management strategy, reporting strategy and teh Portal security strategy. Teh portal platform used teh corporate active directory to Single Sign-On teh employees.
• Implemented teh content management architecture for Confidential Web Content Management and planned teh database architecture for Portal environment. Developed significant noledge on various WebSphere technologies, WebSphere Portal and WCM architecture, setup, configuration, administration, Portlet development and became teh WebSphere Portal SME.
• Developed a number of custom portlets including portlets with Single Sign-On used for accessing confidential HR data. Got exposure to different versions of WebSphere Product and WebSphere application migration as well as got extensive experience with new WebSphere products like IBM Quickplace, Site Analyzer, Web tracker, Workplace Forms and Process Server.
• Migrating WCM to UDB and implementing teh remote rendering portlets provided a significant performance improvement, bringing down teh CPU usage from 50% to about 10% and freed up enough capacity on teh Portal Servers to implement multiple other applications.
• Developed a Web Reporting Infrastructure application, which has been running in our environment since last three years without a single failure.

ENVIRONMENT: WebSphere 6.2.17/5.1.5, WebSphere Portal Server and Web Content Management 6.0.1.1/5.1.0. X, Lotus Quick Place 7, RAD 6.0, IBM Directory Server 4.1(LDAP), Content Manager 8.3, UDB 8.1.10/8.1.12, Process Server 6.0.1.3, Workplace Forms 2.6, Site Analyzer 4.5, AIX 5.2.